Just to be clear, again, funneling a portion of racino slots money into purses and breeding is corporate welfare. Sure, the horse people call it a “state-business partnership.” But as the saying goes, it is what it is, and here…
8-year-old Casey’s On Call is dead after breaking down in Wednesday afternoon’s 2nd race at Hawthorne. If not for a pair of dinged up jockeys, this death likely would have gone unnoticed, for, you see, Casey’s On Call was just…
In horseracing, there is abuse – you know, the everyday stuff – and then there is extraordinary abuse. The “career” of a horse named Porfido (below) would fall into the latter. 11-year-old Porfido began racing before Barack Obama was sworn…
The following racehorses were casualties on American tracks last week: Monday Carvey, Beulah, race 1, vanned off Raptitude, Beulah, race 2, vanned off Tuesday Straight Scooter, Beulah, race 7, vanned off Printscess Best, Charles Town, race 9, vanned off Wednesday…
Crystallo, a 6-year-old mare who toiled under six different trainers over the past three years, broke down in yesterday’s 3rd race at Mountaineer. She is dead, another career claimer killed in the not-so-heroic pursuit of cash. The complicit trainers: Angel…
Unraced 2-year-old colt Jojonotjoelowe, trained by Leslie Hinds, snapped his leg while practicing at Aqueduct Thursday and was killed. NY’s 2014 Death Toll: 21.
In two days last weekend, Santa Anita lost three horses: 2-year-old Russian Silk, Saturday’s 9th race; 3-year-old Causewere Gamblers, Sunday’s 3rd race; and 4-year-old Notbyemyrules, Sunday’s 9th race. What’s more, one trainer, Daniel Dunham, can claim two of the dead…
To anyone paying attention, horseracing is and always has been about human self-interest. The racehorses, no matter what the horse people say, are but means to an end, expendable assets. On Wednesday, no less than Keeneland further confirmed this truth…
I was able to confirm that 3-year-old Art of the Game was killed after breaking down at the finish of Friday’s 8th race at Gulfstream. Complicit in her death are jockey Corey Lanerie, trainer Nick Zito, and owner Richard Pell.…
The following racehorses were casualties on American tracks last week: Monday Visualiser’s Jewel, Will Rogers, race 5, “pulled up in distress,” vanned off Tuesday Shop Keeper, Sunland, race 7, vanned off Wednesday Rockinpop, Gulfstream, race 7, bled, DNF Dukette’s Flame,…
Two Standardbreds were killed in a horrific head-on collision Thursday night at Flamboro Downs (Ontario). After falling early and losing his driver, Buckbuckbuck Mach began running in the wrong direction, eventually crashing into A Sudden Twist. Standardbred Canada reports that…
7-year-old Striking Slew, a progeny of 1977 Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew, was killed Sunday on the Belmont training track after fracturing his humerus.
